'Game of Thrones' fans are outraged over this leaked Season 8 info

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Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 2:49PM

The wait is almost over for 'Game of Thrones'fans with the show’s eighth final season set to hit TV screens next month.

But some are fans outraged after it was revealed that the runtime of each of the six episodes is dramatically much shorter than the feature-length epics that had been rumoured to be in the works.While many were expecting every episode to be around 90 minutes long, fans were disappointed to learn that the first episode will sit at just 54 minutes, while the season finale will be 80 minutes long.

Others on the social media platform shared their concern on whether the shorter length of the episodes would give the show – which has captivated audiences since it first aired in 2011 - enough time to "wrap everything up neatly".

"It’s going to be a rush towards the end," one Twitter user noted.

HBO has officially confirmed the runtime for each episode in the final season of GAME OF THRONES: